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Remember the $1,000,000 USD Giveaway?
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Saturnana✭✭✭✭✭B-but that's less than € 850K, EU getting screwed over again!
@Saturnna | PC / EU
Nâmae Rin : Dragonknight | Dr Milodas Ra'Himo : Templar | Mira Motierre : Sorceress
Plays-ln-Puddles : Warden | Lady Neria : Dragonknight | Philadore : Nightblade
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"Ha! I do love it when the mortals know they're being manipulated. Makes things infinitely more interesting."
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✭✭✭✭✭I don't even need a million. Just give me like, $200,000 and I'll do whatever you want.
I mean really who needs a whole million? That's why I hate the Lottery. Why have one $50mill winner when you can have 100 $500,000 winners.Edited by ArchMikem on September 24, 2018 9:54AMCP2,100 Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
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Get a house most likely. Trying to get one in the UK these days is painful.Unknown_Redemption wrote: »
Although IIRC you don't get the lump sum of $1mil, but paid in instalments.
@Turelus - EU PC Megaserver
"Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves."2 -
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Get a house most likely. Trying to get one in the UK these days is painful.Unknown_Redemption wrote: »
Although IIRC you don't get the lump sum of $1mil, but paid in instalments.
You can opt for the lump sum but if you do it that way it's heavily taxed, like nearly 50%. If you do the installments you get more of it over time.CP2,100 Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
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Unknown_Redemption✭✭✭✭✭I don't even need a million. Just give me like, $200,000 and I'll do whatever you want.
I mean really who needs a whole million? That's why I hate the Lottery. Why have one $50mill winner when you can have 100 $500,000 winners.
So, would you be for each mega server having its sole winner, at a fraction of the pot? ($166,666.666)0 -
Gargath✭✭✭✭✭
✭I don't want free money.
It's always better to earn by hard work, not someone's mercy.
Give it to the charity organization.PC EU (PL): 14 characters. ESO player since 06.08.2015. Farkas finest quote: "Some people don't think I'm smart. Those people get my fist. But you, I like."4 -
StamWhipCultist✭✭✭✭✭Unknown_Redemption wrote: »
I would quit my day job and make EP morningcap zerg on EU Vivec.5 -
Sevalaricgirl✭✭✭✭✭No, just no. I don't want the money I pay them to go to an event that I can't even participate in. That was ridiculously unfair to many of the player base.7
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✭✭✭✭✭StamWhipCultist wrote: »Unknown_Redemption wrote: »
I would quit my day job and make EP morningcap zerg on EU Vivec.
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AlienatedGoat✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I don't even need a million. Just give me like, $200,000 and I'll do whatever you want.
I mean really who needs a whole million? That's why I hate the Lottery. Why have one $50mill winner when you can have 100 $500,000 winners.
Cuz taxes. The rates rise with the size of the take.PC-NA Goat - Bleat Bleat Baaaa0 -
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✭I don't want free money.
It's always better to earn by hard work, not someone's mercy.
Give it to the charity organization.
You could loo at it that way but here is another way to look at it.
Take the money. Use the money to become financially independent from needing a job and spend 100% of your time working for that charity for free or perform volunteer work. That way you have financial freedom and you can still work hard at a job working for your favorite charity.Edited by LegacyDM on September 24, 2018 6:06PMLegacy of Kain
Vicious Carnage
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Get a house most likely. Trying to get one in the UK these days is painful.Unknown_Redemption wrote: »
Although IIRC you don't get the lump sum of $1mil, but paid in instalments.
Would you buy it furnished or unfurnished?1 -
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✭✭I don't even need a million. Just give me like, $200,000 and I'll do whatever you want.
I mean really who needs a whole million? That's why I hate the Lottery. Why have one $50mill winner when you can have 100 $500,000 winners.
Hardly anybody would play. 500k doesn't "change your life" Sure you can pay off your debt and take a trip or two. You can't go and buy that car you've always wanted though cause you can't afford the insurance over time. Go read some of those stories of Rags to Riches back to Rags of lottery winners. Some won over 100 million then after like 15 years they are broke again. You have to be able to afford the items you buy. Anybody can save and buy say a Maserati, but not everyone can afford the few thousand a month in upkeep, gas, insurance etc.
If you watch Price is Right ever most people take the cash value of their prizes specially the cars. The reason is they have to pay to get the car home and then pay taxes on it. Not everyone can afford the taxes on a Vette.
This also explains the problem of Socialism. If you divide the pot among everyone there is no point for the masses to do anything cause they are just going to be taken care of which creates a lazy society.3 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Unknown_Redemption wrote: »
Retire and be happy
However I agree with @Sevalaricgirl
I don't want to see the money I pay them to go for that again considering the restrictions on who can participateEdited by Katahdin on September 24, 2018 6:30PMBeta tester November 20131 -
Geroken777✭✭✭✭✭Just please don't end up like the guy crying about magsorcs and screaming in the forums that he is a whale and that zos just lost a lot of money by losing this really, i mean REALLY 'important' dudeThe self-righteous shall choke on their sanctimony.2 -
Unknown_Redemption✭✭✭✭✭Geroken777 wrote: »Just please don't end up like the guy crying about magsorcs and screaming in the forums that he is a whale and that zos just lost a lot of money by losing this really, i mean REALLY 'important' dude
Sounds like someone needs a 1-Second time out.1 -
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Also cuz of greed. More people will try for a lesser chance of being uber rich rather than a better chance of a much smaller amount of money. Look what happens when the lottery reaches absurd levels of $500 mil+. The pot grows larger faster with each day there is no winner.0 -
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Get a house most likely. Trying to get one in the UK these days is painful.Unknown_Redemption wrote: »
Although IIRC you don't get the lump sum of $1mil, but paid in instalments.
You can opt for the lump sum but if you do it that way it's heavily taxed, like nearly 50%. If you do the installments you get more of it over time.
In my home country the lump sum would be tax free and the installments not. Thank goodness I can't participate.
Good job, Zeni.
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✭✭Unknown_Redemption wrote: »
Retire and be happy
However I agree with @Sevalaricgirl
I don't want to see the money I pay them to go for that again considering the restrictions on who can participate
Where can you retire on 1M after taxes? You would have to do a lot of investing and essentially never miss on one either. 1 Million isn't nearly what it use to be.2
